Every RAM Price Spike and Drop Explained. Should You Buy RAM Now

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Every RAM price spike and drop explained, from 2010 to today: why RAM prices exploded in 2025–2026, and whether you should buy RAM now or wait.

Why is RAM so expensive right now, and will RAM prices go down? We ride 16 years of real average DDR3, DDR4 and DDR5 prices from PCPartPicker and stop at every spike and crash: the DDR3 crash and Elpida's bankruptcy, the SK hynix factory fire, the 2017 memory supercycle, the 2019 and 2023 gluts, the all-time low of late 2024, DDR4 end of life, and the AI and HBM squeeze that took a 32 GB DDR5 kit from about $110 to about $630. Then what past cycles say about when prices come back down, new memory fabs, DRAM contract prices, and what I'd do if you need RAM today.

How much did you pay for the RAM in your PC, and when did you buy it? Let me know in the comments.